The Onward reciter ed. by W. Darrah, Volume 5William Darrah 1876 |
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... once confessed , Little favours kindly done , Little toils thou didst not shun , Little graces meekly worn , Little slights with patience borne- These shall crown thy pillowed head , Holy light upon thee shed , These are treasures that ...
... once confessed , Little favours kindly done , Little toils thou didst not shun , Little graces meekly worn , Little slights with patience borne- These shall crown thy pillowed head , Holy light upon thee shed , These are treasures that ...
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... once more , Like spring flowers through the snow . The storm of war had all passed by , And every foe was gone : They saw the ruined village lie All desolate and lone . But God had made that helpless band His own peculiar care ; Their ...
... once more , Like spring flowers through the snow . The storm of war had all passed by , And every foe was gone : They saw the ruined village lie All desolate and lone . But God had made that helpless band His own peculiar care ; Their ...
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... once , on hearing the orator say " My voice is for war , " ask'd him , " Which of them pray ? " Oh ! oh ! Orator Puff ! One voice for one orator's surely enough . Reeling homewards one evening , top - heavy with gin , And rehearsing his ...
... once , on hearing the orator say " My voice is for war , " ask'd him , " Which of them pray ? " Oh ! oh ! Orator Puff ! One voice for one orator's surely enough . Reeling homewards one evening , top - heavy with gin , And rehearsing his ...
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... once in the ground , We couldn't keep him here ! " " Hush , child ! your brother Johnny 66 Meant to give you a fright . " Mother , he'll go , -I tell you I know He's ' listed into the fight ! 66 ' Plucking a rose from the bush , he said ...
... once in the ground , We couldn't keep him here ! " " Hush , child ! your brother Johnny 66 Meant to give you a fright . " Mother , he'll go , -I tell you I know He's ' listed into the fight ! 66 ' Plucking a rose from the bush , he said ...
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... once more . " O mother ! news has come to day ! ' Tis flying all about ; Our Johnny's regiment , they say , Is all to be mustered out ! " O mother , you must buy me a dress , And ribbons of blue and buff ! O what shall we say to make ...
... once more . " O mother ! news has come to day ! ' Tis flying all about ; Our Johnny's regiment , they say , Is all to be mustered out ! " O mother , you must buy me a dress , And ribbons of blue and buff ! O what shall we say to make ...
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Page 43 - God bless me but the Elephant Is very like a wall !" The Second, feeling of the tusk Cried, "Ho ! what have we here So very round and smooth and sharp? To me 'tis mighty clear This wonder of an Elephant Is very like a spear...
Page 43 - And so these men of Indostan Disputed loud and long, Each in his own opinion Exceeding stiff and strong, Though each was partly in the right, And all were in the wrong!
Page 12 - Welcome, most rubicund sir ! You and I have been great strangers, hitherto, nor, to confess the truth, will my nose be anxious for a closer intimacy, till the fumes of your breath be a little less potent.
Page 13 - Well, well, sir, — no harm done, I hope ! Go draw the cork, tip the decanter ; but, when your great toe shall set you a-roaring, it will be no affair of mine. If gentlemen love the pleasant titillation of the gout, it is all one to the Town Pump.
Page 13 - In the moral warfare, which you are to wage — and, indeed, in the whole conduct of your lives — you cannot choose a better example than myself, who have never permitted the dust and sultry atmosphere, the turbulence and manifold disquietudes of the world around me, to reach that deep, calm well of purity, which may be called my soul. And whenever I pour out that soul, it is to cool earth's fever, or cleanse its stains.
Page 141 - Give back my twentieth spring! 1 'd rather laugh a bright-haired boy Than reign a gray-beard king! Off with the wrinkled spoils of age! Away with learning's crown! Tear out life's wisdom-written page, And dash its trophies down! One moment let my life-blood stream From boyhood's fount of flame! Give me one giddy, reeling dream Of life all love and fame!
Page 141 - If I but touch thy silvered hair, Thy hasty wish hath sped. "But is there nothing in thy track To bid thee fondly stay. While the swift seasons hurry back To find the wished-for day?
Page 42 - IT was six men of Indostan To learning much inclined, Who went to see the elephant (Though all of them were blind), That each by observation Might satisfy his mind.
Page 11 - NOON, by the North clock ! Noon, by the east ! High noon, too, by these hot sunbeams which fall, scarcely aslope, upon my head, and almost make the water bubble and smoke in the trough under my nose. Truly, we public characters have a tough time of it ! And, among all the town officers, chosen at March meeting, where is he that sustains, for a single year, the burden of such manifold duties as are imposed, in perpetuity, upon the Town Pump ? The title of "town treasurer...
Page 49 - but the dinner is swallowed, And digested, I trust ; for 'tis now nine and more : So being relieved from that duty, I followed Inclination, which led me, you see, to your door. And now will your Ladyship so condescend As just to inform me if you intend Your beauty and graces and presence to lend (All...